Pornhub broken

[Firer]

I have swapped "h1" below with "removedh1" to stop it being picked up as markdown.

youtube-dl --verbose -g http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1752516565
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-g', u'http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1752516565']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.09.28
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Linux-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-6.6-Final
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to extract title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/www/youtube-dl-master/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 660, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/www/youtube-dl-master/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 288, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/www/youtube-dl-master/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py", line 70, in _real_extract
    video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1 [^>]+>([^<]+)', webpage, 'title')
  File "/www/youtube-dl-master/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 591, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/www/youtube-dl-master/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 582, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[dstftw]

Works fine for me. Post the output of youtube-dl --dump-pages http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1752516565.

[Firer]

It seems to be intermittent. On one of my systems, if I run the command youtube-dl -g http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1752516565 multiple times in a row some will work and some won't. I guess it may not be a youtube-dl problem.

[yan12125]

I've run the command youtube-dl -v -s --write-pages "http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1752516565" 100 times in a row and no one failed. I guess pornhub has already fixed their servers. Did you still have the problem? If so, post the results of the command mentioned by @dstftw above.

[Firer]

Yes, I just ran the command python /www/youtube-dl-master/youtube-dl -g http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=175251656 10 times in a row. 4 worked and 6 gave the error.

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[kidol]

It's scrape-detection on PornHub's side...
Either slow down your requests (so that detection doesn't trigger), or use proxies.

[yan12125]

Thanks @kidol. It's a duplicate of #5930. youtube-dl may be never able to fix it due to it's complexity.